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⬆️ this person says hello! i play FFXIV, Fate/Grand Order and Genshin so i guess this gon' be 'bout all. I'm Aislen Griffin on Exodus, don't be afraid to say hi if you spot me! I won't bite... unless you do. For my fresh art/memes, @exponential-imagination.

[roshigumi]

I’m not really sure how to put it, but it really ticks me off when Fate tends to put England on a pedestal above all other neighbouring nations.

Sure, celtic legends are deeply intertwined with english legends sometimes (I’m thinking specifically of everything surrounding king Arthur, because it is part of Brythonic mythology) but… I have issues with how they pretty consistantly portray the Knights from the Round Table as (mostly) refined people, whereas “Celts” are described by everyone as savages in E Pluribus Unum. Not just by their actions as led by Medb, but they seemed to talk about this savagery and desire for conquest as something specifically celt that entirely defined their nations even in their legends.

– Anyway, my point is that you cannot simply praise England and only England for King Arthur and the Round Table being those polished, honor-bound idealists when those knights and legends also belong to Celtic nations as a whole.

I haven’t read LB6 yet (shame on me) but I’m kind of wary as to how they’ll justify a specifically Gaulish god being there.

idk, I don’t mind when you criticize mythology that you know well, but I really feel like America’s writer didn’t do his homework, and I just can’t shake the feeling that Fate as a whole had one idea in mind about Celts in FGO and never thought twice about it ever again.

I get that Fate always puts value on Humanity evolving and gaining new “technology” and whatnot, but why is it that a place like Uruk is considered like an extraordinary place despite its frugality, but ancient Celtic nations just seem to be horny, battle-thirsty warriors who never think twice about dying because they only care about themselves?

Celts aren’t any more savages than anyone else in their time period. If anything, the fact that the Celtic nations still exist today despite being consistently and vehemently oppressed and nearly wiped out in some places (by Christianity as a whole, and by England in the British isles) show that they are more than “savages” who privileged individuals and sneered at the collective good.

[roshigumi]

I wonder how FGO would like it if someone reversed-uno-ed them and started talking about the Sengoku era and the Tokugawa regime the way FGO talks about Celts lol

[evermore-fashion]

Tony Ward ‘Where is Aphrodite?’ Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear Collection

[trashybugs]

I want to fuck Oberon so hard until he starts reciting all of Midsummer's Night Dream and Huon of Bordeaux.

Anon its 11 PM and you're making me choke

[katsutacle]

this is the last set I promise

[trashybugs]

Obeguda

[trashybugs]

what da bug doin?

[trashybugs]

babysitting smolberon

this is really old and cringe but yeah

[trashybugs]

well i gotta post my sexy Oberon too in here

[trashybugs]

Obeguda

[trashybugs]

malewife Oberon

[trashybugs]

Guda found a smol bug!

[aureliobooks]

my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

[tarrevizsla]

i hate pessimistic takes on human nature so much

[tarrevizsla]

saying humans are inherently bad just excuses you from doing the work to improve yourself and the world around you. saying humans are inherently selfish means there's no reason to even try to make things better. and for some reason people think these are radical takes, that they're being smart or philosophical by saying humanity is doomed - these are not new takes. you're just catholic.

[tarrevizsla]

you have to believe that people are inherently good. you have to. why have hearts if not to love, hands if not to hold, minds if not to dream. you can't ignore love. there's some good in this world, mr frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

[glicot]

[tsunesama]

i just got him to lv.100 last week

[versegm]

The tl;dr of Mandricardo is that he thinks he's hot shit and he thinks he's Roland's fated rival. Roland killed his father! Roland holds Durandal, the one item missing from Mandricardo's full Hektor equipment! Mandricardo is a strong fighter. Surely it was always meant to be like this. Surely Mandricardo and Roland are tied by a fate to kill each other.

Except that's very much not the case. Mandricardo is the wrong genre savy. He's a side character from a side story. He gets Durandal not in any heroic way, but by picking it up on the side of the road. He dies in a stupid, petty duel, against a guy he had never never heard of prior. The tragedy of Mandricardo is that he lived as a man convinced he was the center of the narrative, and yet died in the most meaningless way possible.

Fgo Mandricardo is Like That because he's a guy who spend his whole life thinking he was hot shit, and now that he gets another shot after death he has no choice but to face the fact that everything he's ever done came down to nothing. He's no legendary warrior or even mighty foe. He's a nobody. How can he face those heroes of the past when he's barely a footnote in his original legend? How can he speak to the likes of Achilles or Paris as if he were an equal- when he's even less than third-rate himself? Mandricardo is a man who has built his entire life on a belief that crumbled in his afterlife, and that left him with poor self esteem and even poorer social skills.

[murkablyad]